Time Is the Coin of Your Life

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” ~ Carl Sandburg, upon turning 85 How are you spending your summer? This summer has impressed on me more than …

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The Words Beneath Our Feet

Artist’s Date, New York Weekend Edition: Library Way We walk around all day with our heads full of swirling thoughts, doubting thoughts, thoughts that pull us away from what matters, thoughts that threaten against our better intentions to define and direct us. What if we placed in our way a few reminders of simpler but …

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Root Out Those Adverbs

on-writing-stephen-king-tenth-anniversary2“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they’re like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day…fifty the day after that…and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they really are, but by then it’sā€”GASP!!ā€”too late.”

~ Stephen King, On Writing